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A Japanese flag from World War II is returned to soldier’s family THE NORTH SHORE WEEKEND
A Japanese flag from World War II — discovered during construction at New Trier High School’s Winnetka Campus, in 2015 — was recently reunited with the family of the fallen soldier who carried it into battle. Thanks to the efforts of New Trier faculty members, Japanese language students and a nonprofit dedicated to returning battle flags to families in Japan, 90-year-old Teruo Shimizu now has a cherished memento from his brother, who died in battle in 1944 at age 21. The nonprofit OBON SOCIETY returned the flag last summer after using clues from the flag and New Trier’s research to locate the family of the soldier, Tokichi Shimizu, in Japan. In the months that followed followed, New Trier Japanese language students and members of the Japanese Culture Club — inspired by the messages they had exchanged with Teruo Shimizu — raised $1,766 for OBON, an Oregon-based nonprofit that works to provide opportunities for reconciliation between families through the return of personal items taken during war. After learning that Tokichi Shimizu’s family had been located, current and Continued on PG 10
Four members in Car 553 on the Metra North Line. PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOEL LERNER BY DAVID A. F. SWEET THE NORTH SHORE WEEKEND
When Katherine Templin moved to Lake Forest from Chicago a few winters ago, the train commute downtown and back in the dark became a bleak part of her day. Then, a friend introduced her to Car 553.
“There were tables to spread out and work, and there was hot coffee available in the morning,” Templin says. “I tried it for a week or so, and I was hooked.” Amid the thousands of miles of rail tracks in the United States, Car 553 is the only operating membership commuter car rolling through towns. Tables in the back — the site
of bridge games in the past — are used in the 21st century by members such as Templin to type on laptops. Relaxing arm chairs greet members in the front, and they sink in to read their newspapers or books, undisturbed by the boarding announcements or cacophonous Continued on PG 10
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NEWS COMMUTER FRIENDLY Cont. from PG 1 cell-phone conversations that take place in the other cars. Framed lists of prominent members from days of yore (including ones who rode The Deerpath, Car 553’s precursor) include nationally known industrialists who helped build Chicago, and historic Union Pacific and Chicago & Northwestern Railway signs hang on the wall nearby. An occasional dinner with spouses helps cement friendships off of the rails (though the gatherings never go completely off the rails). “Car 553 offers a comfortable and collegial environment,” says George Spencer, a Lake Bluff resident. “It creates an opportunity to spend hourlong periods of time discussing the events of the day. I have found it a wonderful way to meet new friends and renew old acquaintances since I moved to the North Shore from Chicago.” Two years ago, the three dozen or so members embarked on a major refurbishment of the singlelevel car, which was getting a little shabby. The $100,000 upgrade consisted of new carpeting, a modern refrigerator and even a small bar where members often grab a cup of coffee. The silver exterior was transformed with the green-andyellow colors and lettering that used to grace every car of the Chicago & Northwestern railroad. Around the same time, the car’s schedule on the Metra Union Pacific North line was changed. It arrived about 45 minutes earlier downtown and departed about a half-hour later to better serve a membership no longer working bankers’ hours. Winnetka was added to the list of stops on the homeward jaunt in an attempt to recruit new members.
Off the train platform in the morning, at some stops, members can stroll through as many as three cars before they reach the green door with a window labelled “Private Car.” The morning run stops at Lake Bluff, Lake Forest, Highland Park, Winnetka and other North Shore towns. Once members reach Ogilvie Station slightly after 8 a.m. (Car 553 departs Ogilvie at 5:35 p.m.), they disembark just outside the door, thanks to a conductor who has opened the proper exit. Members in the farther northern suburbs, such as Lake Forest, pay $850 per quarter to ride in the car, while those in Winnetka and other spots closer to Chicago pay $550 per quarter. All members must also cover the Metra fare from their stops. Lake Forest residents Devon Bruce and Terry Dee talk around the bar in Car 553 on the Metra North Line. Private commuter cars, which once dotted the national landscape, used to also be more prominent on the North Shore. The called Car 553. It was put into private service in the next 45 minutes laughing and talking as more people joined our little group,” she recalls. “We plush vehicles earned a variety of nicknames, 1975. The morning ride is often quiet; the evening were sad we had to get off at our stop.” ranging from the Psychopath to the Cowpath. According to the website http://car553.org/, in excursions can be far more lively. A few weeks ago, Potential members should contact Devon Bruce at 1949 the American Car and Foundry Company Templin invited a friend to ride Car 553 with her on a Friday night. devonbruce@icloud.com to find out the best way to hop built a long-distance passenger lounge car that was “We brought our beverage of choice and spent on board. eventually rejiggered for commuter service and
MESSAGE OF HEALING Cont. from PG 1 former New Trier Japanese language students wrote letters in Japanese and sent pictures to Teruo Shimizu. The students described their involvement and offered their condolences for his loss. He replied with a letter that Japanese 4/AP students translated with the help of their Japanese language teacher, Naomi Suzuki. Faculty members Gardiner Funo O’Kain and Susan Holderread assisted in communications with OBON; both were involved in the flag’s progress since its discovery in 2015. “Writing and receiving letters from Mr. Shimizu was a valuable experience for me and everyone else in the Japanese program,” says Bennett J. Blake, a senior in AP Japanese 4. “Being able to write letters in Japanese and then translate the letter we received was an engaging real-world application of our Japanese knowledge. “We in the Japanese program are happy to have returned the flag to its rightful owner.” Japanese flags like Tokichi Shimizu’s, known as yosegaki hinomaru, were commonly given to soldiers by family members as tokens of protection on the battlefield. Teruo Shimizu told the students that he was grateful for their letters and their efforts to return the flag to his family. “The 45 letters that I received from students were very heartfelt,” he writes. “During the 90 years of my life, I have never received letters that moved me so much. Thank you. I want to express my gratitude.” Teruo Shimizu says his late brother, whose rank was equivalent to that of an army private, was a border security officer in Manchuria before he was deployed to the Marshall Islands. Later that year the Shimizu family received a report that Tokichi had died there. Tokichi was the oldest son of six
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siblings, and Teruo says that he and his 87-year-old sister are the only siblings alive today. “Now, I am 90 years old, I run a small farm, and I am doing well,” he writes. “I pray for the further development of New Trier High School. I also pray for the good health and development/growth of New Trier High School students. On behalf of the Japan War-Bereaved Families Association, I want to give thanks.” Tokichi Shimizu’s flag was inscribed with several messages of love and encouragement in Japanese and accompanied by a portion of a 1944 newspaper photo of U.S. soldiers with the caption, “To the conquerors”, when it was discovered at New Trier in a mechanical area during preparations for construction at the campus later that year.
It was common for U.S. soldiers to return home with battlefield souvenirs. New Trier social studies and Japanese language students translated and researched the flag at that time, and OBON SOCIETY confirmed the flag’s authenticity
90-year-old Japanese man in his native language. We were all touched after reading Mr. Shimizu’s heartwarming response.” The co-founders of OBON SOCIETY, Rex and Keiko Ziak, were also touched — by the connections the students had made and by their fundraising efforts. “Every penny you earned for us will be spent wisely, and all the money will go towards the return of more yosegaki hinomaru to families in Japan,” the Ziaks note in an email to New Trier. “… Again, thank you very, very much for your hard work and generosity. Many more families will benefit from our work, thanks to your generous support of our efforts.” NTHS junior Katelin Ambrosino, a student in Japanese 4, says she was inspired to help raise money for OBON SOCIETY to further promote reconciliation between Japanese and American families “after seeing how much time and money Mr. and Mrs. Ziak put into running OBON SOCIETY, as well as the happiness that their work brought to not only the families in Japan, but also to the people who were involved in the process. “We got to experience first-hand the joy that Mr. Shimizu felt, as well as the joy we felt from being involved, and I hope that this experience will encourage others to continue to put aside our differences and see how much we all have in common.”
based on photos. After hearing from Teruo Shimizu, current Japanese language students and members of Japanese Culture Club wanted to help further OBON’s cause. In November they sold $1 tickets for a Japanese restaurant raffle with the help of local restaurants Torino Ramen, Ao Sushi, Akai Hana, Nobori Sushi, Sea Ranch and Gabutto Burger; each donated between $40-$100 worth of gift cards. Club members also sold ramen and onigiri rice balls during lunch periods at New Trier to raise funds. “The passion that my students exhibited toward returning the flag, corresponding with the owner’s brother and raising money for OBON SOCIETY filled me with tremendous pride,” Suzuki says. “It To learn more about OBON SOCIETY visit was rewarding to see how they connected to this obonsociety.org.
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Trevians n’ Tinah Netting — wins Hong unifies New Trier hoopsters with her steady play BY BILL MCLEAN THE NORTH SHORE WEEKEND
Tinah Hong, a junior basketball player at New Trier High School, admires NBA megastar LeBron James. But not just because the Los Angeles Laker does extraordinary things on a basketball court night after night. “He’s also a great person, a great philanthropist,” the first-year varsity starter said after a game on December 13. “He’s done such a good job of making Akron [ James’ childhood home in Ohio] a better place. That school he started in Akron this year, the I Promise School … there’s that, and there are many other reasons to like him, to look up to him.” Hong, a guard, hasn’t met James, a small forward/power forward capable of playing any position. Yet. If she were to run into him one day, the first
ketball player who plays best when she’s confident. “She does a lot of different things well for us,” the coach added. Hong sat for the first two games and played only two minutes in New Trier’s first meeting with Glenbrook South last season. Disheartened? No. Determined? Yes. Hong — a Full Package club basketball player since the eighth grade — caught the attention of her NT coaches at one practice. And then at another. The trend continued at a third practice. Her minutes in varsity games then increased, steadily. Hong emerged as a valuable nonstarter for a Class 4A regional championship team that lost to Maine West in a sectional semifinal. Rodgers delivered some good news to Hong last summer. The news: “You’ll start for us, Tinah.” Hong has embraced the new role. Fully. But, like that LeBron fellow, W’s mean way more to her than individual statistics do. A mad-about-science student, Hong isn’t the only Trevians hoopster wearing a “lab coat” these days. “I like our team chemistry,” she said. “It’s what makes us successful.”
“Team effort. We won tonight because of our team, not because of an individual.”
word she’d utter? “I wouldn’t say anything,” a smiling Hong said, “because I’d be speechless.” Hong’s performance in New Trier’s 38-36 defeat of host Glenbrook South last week spoke volumes, since it clearly represented her value to the Trevians (10-3 overall, 3-1 in the Central Suburban League South division). Hong, never shy to drive the lane, scored 10 of her team-high 14 points in the second half, came down with five rebounds and deflected a pass (it wound up in the hands of senior teammate Taite Ryan) at the 52-second mark of the third quarter. Ten seconds later, at the other end of the floor, she hit her second three-pointer of the frame; the first trey had cut the Titans’ lead to 26-21, and the second long-range jumper gave NT a 27-26 lead — its first advantage in Glenview since 4-2 at 5:48 of the first quarter. Hong, a reserve player as a sophomore on varsity in the 2017-18 season, opened the scoring in the final quarter with a driving layup and went 2-for-2 from the free-throw line with 31 ticks left. The freebies swelled the visitors’ tenuous cushion to 38-33, and they ended up being critical ones because guard Makayla Stadler of GBS (10-2, 2-2) would nail a three-pointer six seconds later.
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THE HONG SHOW: New Trier junior guard Tinah Hong poured in a team-high 14 points in NT’s 38-36 defeat of host Glenbrook South last week. NT improved its record to 10-3. PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOEL LERNER
“We made the defensive stops we needed to make, and we kept chipping away,” the humble, team-first Hong said of NT’s comeback from a 15-5 deficit after the first quarter. “Everybody hustled and stayed energetic. Our energy is what I like about this team, as well as how supportive everybody is. “Team effort,” she added. “We won tonight
because of our team, not because of an individual.” Hong owned averages of 8.8 points, 2.2 rebounds, 2.2 assists and 1.3 steals through 13 games. She netted a season-high 15 points against Niles West High School on December 7. “Tinah,” Trevians girls basketball coach Teri Rodgers said, “is a talented, hard-working bas-
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Notable: Before the New Trier girls basketball game at Glenbrook South last week, Rodgers, microphone in hand, gave a brief, heartfelt speech near midcourt. Her target was retiring Glenbrook South coach Steve Weissenstein, an Illinois Girls Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Famer who plans to step down after the 2018-19 season. Rodgers praised her counterpart for fielding a well-prepared team every year. She also extolled his class off the court. A couple of Trevians then handed Weissenstein a card and a wrapped present before tip-off. … New Trier senior starting guard Rebecca Goldman suffered what appeared to be a serious left elbow injury at 3:24 of the second quarter of the game at GBS on December 13. She did not return to action. A couple of South players ran to Goldman, sitting on her team’s bench, to check on her status right before the start of the second half. … New Trier senior forward Colleen Condon and senior guard Cassie Fix each scored six points in NT’s 38-36 win at GBS. Ryan grabbed a team-high six boards. Fix executed the finest bounce pass of the night in the fourth quarter, finding Condon in heavy traffic down low. The ensuing bucket gave NT a 31-30 lead. … An alert Rodgers, with her team up 38-36, called for a smart timeout with 16.9 seconds left in the fourth quarter. A New Trier ball handler was in trouble — and surrounded by a couple of trapping Titans — near NT’s bench when a referee granted the timeout. Neither team scored thereafter. … New Trier limited GBS to four points in the second quarter — after GBS had allowed only five points in the first eight minutes. THE NORTH SHORE WEEKEND
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Merry Mary Ann BY BILL MCLEAN ILLUSTRATION BY BARRY BLITT
The Most Affable FedEx Driver in the United States cannot stop talking about the late Jane O’Neil from her booth seat at Egg Harbor Café in Lake Forest. Mary Ann Delaloye had delivered packages to O’Neil’s Lake Bluff home for years, before Lake Forest became Delaloye’s primary territory. They became good friends, repartee and laughter guaranteed with each encounter. “Jane was larger than life but this small,” Delaloye says, pointing her left index finger straight up to represent the approximate size of O’Neil’s frame. “Everyone in Lake Bluff knew her. Everyone in Lake Forest knew her. Jane was a dynamic force. Ask anyone who knew her. We’d cross paths three, sometimes four, times a day. “One day,” the 58-year-old and 24-year FedEx veteran continues,” Jane asks me, ‘You ever coming back to deliver in Lake Bluff?’ I had to tell her, ‘No.’ Her reply to that was, ‘Well, then, I guess I’m going to have to move to Lake Forest.’ ” O’Neil, who died in 2017, was kidding. Maybe. Santa doesn’t wear FedEx’s colors. FedEx drivers don’t deliver only one night a year. But the best drivers and that big ol’ man in the sleigh do have at least two traits in common: reliability and jocularity. The owner of a car dealership waited for a package — containing a gift for his granddaughter — at the dealership one Christmas Eve. A cheerful Delaloye handed it to the man. “That gift was the only thing his granddaughter wanted for Christmas that year,” recalls Delaloye, who had ordered coffee, Shakshuka and a cup of mixed fruit. “Grandpa was relieved when he saw me holding the package. He would be a hero to his granddaughter. “We’re not just people who jump in and out of trucks. It matters how you treat people, even if you interact with a customer for a short period time with a quick joke or a funny moment shared or a wellness check on each other. Customers warm my heart every day. “You know what I do when I work? I build relationships, 30 seconds at a time.” Delaloye’s very first customer on her Lake Forest route in 2004 was a migraine sufferer. Delaloye delivered the medication to her. Another relieved recipient hugged Delaloye.
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Another customer, who hadn’t seen Delaloye for nearly 10 years, spotted her one day this fall, put an arm around her and said, “How’s it going, kid?” The kid had super news to report. Delaloye, a
Waukegan resident since 2012, had recently earned her online MBA with an Entrepreneurship emphasis (and with a 4.0 grade-point average) from Stevens-Henager College in Salt Lake City. Smart kid. Rare downtimes during work found her opening her laptop and studying at Caputo’s Cheese Market or in The Arcade Building in Lake Forest. A fire had destroyed the home of customers whose home doubled as a place of business. The displaced customers lived in a room at the Deer Path Inn in L a k e Forest for 10 months. They relied on the delivery of important packages. Guess which FedEx driver was a regular, for nearly a year, at DPI on 255 East Illinois Road? Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Delaloye grew up in La Grange and attended Lyons Township High School (Class of 1979). She is still friends with her second-grade teacher, Cyndy Davenport, who served as Delaloye’s show-and-tell subject in
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You know what I do when I work? I build relationships, 30 seconds at a time.
Delaloye’s Child Development class at LTHS. Delaloye took the class in her junior year. “We were studying the third trimester of pregnancy,” Delaloye says. “[Davenport] was pregnant, in her third trimester, at the time, so I asked her to come to school with me.” Delaloye’s late mother, Rose, loved being around people and thrived in the kitchen, with her specialty, apple nut bread, garnering a “wicked good” rating from Mary Ann Delaloye. Dad Joe, an extrovert and a retired accountant for a global oil company, has walked three miles a day for the last five years, watches what he eats, performs in community theater productions and sings in three choirs. “I practically have to make an appointment to see him,” his daughter cracks. “He just started taking naps — and he’s 88 years old.” Delaloye owns a 6-year-old Rottweiler named Ginger and a 4-year-old Black and Tan Coonhound named Gracie. Each is a special needs dog. “My girls,” Delaloye says. Ginger blew out a knee shortly before her owner was set to travel to Utah to receive her master’s degree. The pet owner stayed home to be with Ginger. Pamper and care before pomp and circumstance. Ask Delaloye about the dogs that race to the door to greet her during her workdays, and she’d tell you about the time a homeowner was in no hurry to arrive at the door one day. “I joked by saying, ‘What took you so long? I knew you were home because your dog kept looking away from me, wondering where you were?’ ” Delaloye revisits fond memories of Jane O’Neil. One involved a picture of O’Neil’s newborn granddaughter named … Jane O’Neil. “Three months before she died, she saw me working, got out of her car — the one with the ‘JSON’ license plates, the one every one knew was Jane’s car — and showed me a picture of that granddaughter,” Delaloye says, adding one of the car’s windshield wipers often secured a FedEx door tag with the message “Blessings to you!” (no signature needed). “Jane was beaming, just beaming, that day. She couldn’t stop beaming. We hugged, and then I thanked her for taking the time to share that picture with me. “That moment with Jane meant the world to me. I’ll never forget it. I’ll cherish it forever.” THE NORTH SHORE WEEKEND
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